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Very tough day with barbel coming out of the blue through the whole session. River was low but carrying colour. As always a beautiful stretch but the fish were not on today. We moved regularly all day and covered the whole stretch.

3 Barbel, 3 Chub

Had a very enjoyable day on this beautiful beat. The river was very low, but coloured due to algae. Roved the whole stretch, mostly feeder fishing and took Chub in most swims, but Barbel just weren't interested.

31 Chub

water coloured and deep. i fished the top half of the beat first and found some fast water at the very top that was productive on nymphs. 2 fish to net and lost 3 more. all were over 1lb and one that i lost felt much bigger.

wading out to the foam lines & deep channels was tricky without being able to see the bottom. but worth it!

the bottom half of the beat i found completely inaccessible- the camp site bank has a drop of 15 feet all the way along & entering at the bridge & wading down stream was impossible in coloured deep water. perhaps in clear water it would be do-able

very few features on this part of the river but can imagine if the fish were rising it would be dry fly heaven with a stead y even flow.

returned to some faster water but nothing for the rest of the day.

all fish caught & lost were on the same green tag brown beaded nymph

2 Trout

Water low and dropping. Fishing nymphs in the riffle, lost 3 decent brown trout .
Saw big coloured salmon moving, hooked and lost 1. All in all lovely day on a pretty beat.

4 Trout

Short morning session on dries. 1 brown trout caught. 2 other takes missed.

1 Trout

1 Barbel, 5 Chub

30 Barbel, 50 Chub

Well a dank dismal morning so headed for the Whittern beat , arriving at half eight , a lot cooler today, nice to be honest. River refreshed and a slight rise and a tinge to it as I tackled up . . . Walking back down the road sneeking along the edge of the corn field and in to the river.

Fished a Para Greenwells the whole two and a half hours and only did between the two bridges . . . . No no , actually I lie like Pinocchio ; I fished just up passed the Titley Bridge along that lovely dry fly series of runs and picked up two good fish along there !!

Fishing was good fun and lovely takes to the dry thus morning, Only cast to one riser and had him , the remainder were caught prospecting my dry in trouty looking locations. . . . . I must say two takes were very subtle in the glides, and one was a cracker of the fish , maybe thirteen inches or so , superb run around on the two weight rod !!!

I must admit after a couple of hours even my sprightly dry fly was looking a bit bedraggled and even a sprucing up and gink didn't seem to improve it ! But maybe it was just what the brownies wanted , they still hammered it in that last series of trouty runs . . . Lovely job . Fish today ranged from the usual tubby Arrow eight inch brownies, right up to the decent one of thirteen inches I had . . . .

When I cut out inti the now harvested field , the river was colouring up a bit more and certainly rising with the heavier rain . A lovely quick session and great to see the river filling up in July !! An invigorating morning !!

By eleven , it was nice to get back to the truck and a quick cup of coffee from the flask! Back home and a full bodied glass of Port and an afternoon watching the Olympics . . . . . Lovely jubbley !!!!

7 Trout

4 rainbow trout caught on a spinner
1.5 lbs to 3.5 lbs
catch and released

4 Trout